Beyond all IPT problems who are already challenging by nature — studying a sonic black hole, building a static speaker or a particle detector, the Brazilian team had to face, once again, one more problem than all other participants at the IPT 2018: money.

The first fights of the 2018 edition of the IPT have come towards a close. Sixteen teams have been given a first taste of the “Physics jousts” this afternoon at the MIPT campus. Tensions were already tight at the start